Fighting in Gaza resumes after cease-fire breaks down
Israel resumed carrying out attacks in Gaza after its temporary truce with Hamas broke down, and civilians continue to struggle to retreat. NBC News’ Raf Sanchez reports that Qatar says it’s still attempting to broker a new deal.

Israeli officials withdraw from negotiations and leave Qatar
A team from Mossad, Israel’s national intelligence agency, has withdrawn from negotiations in Doha, Qatar, and returned to Israel, according to a statement from the prime minister’s office.
Mossad left “following the impasse in negotiations and at the direction of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu” and Mossad head David Barnea, according to the statement. It added that Hamas “did not fulfill its part of the agreement which included the release of all children and women according to a list that was forwarded to Hamas and approved by it.”
Hamas has blamed Israel for the breakdown of the truce, saying it refused all offers of more hostages and the bodies of the dead.
Abandoned babies found decomposing in Gaza hospital weeks after it was evacuated
As residents used the seven-day truce that ended Friday to find aid, search for loved ones under the rubble, and head home to survey the destruction, a particularly disturbing scene emerged.
Seen in a video that moves through the abandoned and disarrayed hallways of the pediatric intensive care unit at Al-Nasr Children’s Hospital in northern Gaza were several babies whose unattended bodies lay on separate hospital beds. A blurred version of the video was shared widely on social media this week, a grim and graphic contrast to other scenes of families reunited as hostages and prisoners were freed.
In a piece he reported, Mohammed Baalousha, a journalist with the Emirati TV channel Al-Mashhad, said he found the decomposing infants when he entered the pediatric ICU in the health facility in Gaza City. The hospital’s staff and critically ill patients were forced to evacuate in early November as the Israeli military focused its ground assault on the city, with hospitals under fire.
NBC News obtained raw footage from the channel and has reviewed its contents.

Doctors Without Borders blames Israeli army for November attacks on convoy and facilities
Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) is blaming Israel for an attack that killed two people who were part of the humanitarian aid group's convoy on Nov. 18. The convoy was attempting to evacuate health workers and their families to the southern Gaza Strip.
The humanitarian aid group said in a statement yesterday that “all elements” of attacks on evacuation convoys earlier in November “point to the responsibility of the Israeli army.”
Five MSF vehicles were also destroyed and a clinic severely damaged in a separate attack on Nov. 20, the statement said. The group attributed the destruction to “the intervention of an Israeli bulldozer and a heavy military vehicle.” Shots were fired at facilities where workers were sheltering, the statement added.
Another MSF vehicle, dispatched by colleagues in Gaza’s south to reattempt the evacuation of workers in the north, was destroyed by an Israeli tank on Nov. 24, the group said, the same day as the temporary truce between Hamas and Israel began.
All vehicles and buildings were clearly marked with the MSF logo, the organization added in its statement, calling for an independent investigation into the attacks and an official explanation from Israeli authorities.
The IDF did not immediately respond to a request for comment from NBC News.
Erdoğan: 'I cannot accept Hamas as a terror group'
Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, described Israeli attacks in Gaza as “state terrorism,” about which he could not “stay silent,” as he reiterated his position to reporters that “exclusion of Hamas is not a realistic scenario” in achieving peace in Gaza.
“We have come to a point with our interlocutors that Gaza cannot be debated if there is no two-state solution,” Erdoğan added, according to Turkish state news agency Andalou.
“No matter what anybody says, I cannot accept Hamas as a terror group,” he said, adding that the Israeli bombardment of Gaza would go down in history as a “black stain.”
Two members of Iranian military wing killed in Syria, group says
Two members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, a branch of the Iranian Armed Forces, were killed during an advisory mission in Syria, according to a statement from the IRGC on Telegram.
Guardsmen Rashid Islam Mohammad Ali Atai Shuche and Panah Taghizadeh were killed by Israeli forces, the statement said. They appear to be the first Iranians killed in actions connected to the war since it broke out in early October. The IDF declined to comment.
The IRGC has historically been linked to Hezbollah, filtering supplies and money to the group via Syria and Iraq.
The Israel Defense Forces said that it conducted missile strikes near Damascus. It was not immediately clear whether these the incidents were related, and NBC News could not independently verify the attacks.
First aid trucks since end of truce arrive in Gaza
The Palestine Red Crescent has received the first aid trucks since the breakdown of the truce between Israel and Hamas, the society said on X today.
Aid trucks were received at the Rafah crossing by the Palestine Red Crescent from its partner organization in Egypt, it added.
The posts updated a statement from the organization yesterday that said Israel had suspended the passing of aid through Rafah following the end of the truce “until further notice.”
U.N. Women 'alarmed' by accounts of gender-based violence on Oct. 7
U.N. Women, the entity charged with working toward global gender equality, said in a statement published Friday that the “numerous accounts” of gender-based violence allegedly committed during Hamas’ attacks on Israel on Oct. 7 should be “duly investigated and prosecuted, with the rights of the victim at the core.”
The agency said that it was alarmed by accounts of gender-related atrocities on Oct. 7, and that “all women, Israeli women, Palestinian women, as all others, are entitled to a life lived in safety and free from violence.”
The statement came after weeks of criticism from within Israel and by congressional leaders in the U.S. over the lack of a U.N. Women statement since the initial attack. U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres on Wednesday said that accounts of sexual violence must be “vigorously investigated and prosecuted.”
An open letter signed by 87 bipartisan House lawmakers Wednesday urged the body to “publicly condemn Hamas for its brutal October 7th attack” and to stand with “Israeli women and women of other nationalities” in its aftermath.
200 people killed in Gaza since end of truce, minister says
Two hundred people, mostly women and children, have been killed in Gaza since the end of the temporary humanitarian truce between Israel and Hamas on Friday morning, according to a statement from the Hamas-run Ministry of Information.
Cities across the strip including Khan Younis, Deir al-Balah and Jabalia have also been targeted, the statement, published on Telegram, said.
NBC News could not independently verify this report. More than 15,000 people are believed to have been killed in Gaza since Oct. 7, with several thousand more missing or trapped under rubble.
400 targets hit across north and south Gaza, says IDF
Israeli forces have resumed their bombardment of the Gaza Strip by land, sea and air, according to a military statement, striking 400 targets in both northern and southern areas.
The air force bombed 50 targets in the southern city of Khan Younis, while troops struck "terrorists and Hamas infrastructure" in Beit Lahia in northern Gaza. Navy forces also struck the Khan Younis marina and Deir al-Balah in the southern Gaza Strip, which they said contained "equipment used by Hamas Naval Forces."
A fighter jet struck a mosque the Israeli military said was “used by the Islamic Jihad as an operational command center.”
The targeting of religious buildings, which are protected civilian objects, is considered a war crime under international humanitarian law, according to the ICC, unless the attacking force is able to prove it has lost protected status.